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With a three-volume commemorative book and the virtual “Room of Names“ the Mauthausen Memorial is setting a monument to all those known by name who died in the Concentration Camp Mauthausen and its sub-camps. Transport lists from the ITS archive served as one of the information sources for this book.

In 2016, the Canadian Daniel Krywiak contacted the Neuengamme concentration camp in the hope of finding out more about his father’s fate. He never would have expected the answer he received. The staff informed him that his father’s pocket watch was in the archive of the International Tracing Service (ITS). He then...

Newly found documents in the Historical Archives of Belgrade provided the impetus for an international project about murdered Jewish women and children in Sajmišt Concentration Camp. As an expert on the topic of learning and teaching about the Holocaust, Akim Jah presented the archival-pedagogical work of the ITS.

Joost de Snoo was named after his father, whom he can barely remember. He was three when his father was arrested in August 1944 and deported via the Amersfoort police transit camp to Neuengamme concentration camp. When his father was arrested, the Gestapo took his wallet which held family photos. Joost de Snoo died in...

200 participants from some 40 countries met from 23-26 May 2016 to discuss the Holocaust as a contemporary political issue. Representing the ITS, Director Floriane Hohenberg took part in this meeting of the IHRA.

Because she wanted to learn more about her family history, Wendy van Eijnatten, from the Netherlands, sent an inquiry to the International Tracing Service (ITS). In April 2016 she travelled to Bad Arolsen, as she was interested in seeing the documents about her uncle Jan (Johannes Franciscus Maria) van Boeckel....

In May 2016, the International Tracing Service (ITS) published on the EHRI portal an index that had been built up between the years 1970 and 1982 and which had served primarily as a search tool for the ITS staff members. The German Research Society (DFG) provided support for the preparation of the information as an...

Even today, family members of victims of Nazi terror and war from the former Soviet Union are searching for the grave sites of loved ones, as well as for information about their fates. The Office for War Grave Tending and Commemoration Work of the Embassy of the Russian Federation works together with the International...

The International Tracing Service (ITS) enables ever-improving access to the 85 percent of its documents on National Socialist crimes and their victims that has now been digitized. Within the scope of this most recent international workshop in March in Bad Arolsen “Improving Access to the ITS Archives,” staff from the...

After Lilia Ivanova had long since given up expecting that she would ever learn the truth, she finally discovered who her father was. And, only a short time after that, she got to know her paternal relatives in France. It is stories such as these that show how much the crimes committed by the Nazis still have an effect...